Coronary Heart Disease Prevention

"An excellent handbook which covers all aspects of coronary heart disease and will serve as a very useful reference for nurses working in primary and secondary health prevention".Nursing in General Practiceevidence-based content ensures a firm scientific basis for practicethe practical nature of the content can be immediately applied in the working environment e.g. smoking cessation strategies, dietary counseling and risk assessmentthe multidisciplinary group of contributors ensures that the content reflects the multidisciplinary nature of CHD prevention workcase studies and practice exercises enable the application of theory to practicesummaries of key points facilitate understanding and retentionthe implications from clinical governance legislation, the National Service Frameworks and Joint British Recommendations on prevention of CHD in clinical practicerecent research outcomes e.g. the HOT trialdiabetes and its links with CHDmaterial relating to ethnic minorities more 'global' statistics where possible to make the text more appealing to international markets the inequalities arising from socio-economic exclusion